Characterization of an early passage Merkel cell polyomavirus-positive Merkel cell carcinoma cell line, MS-1, and its growth in NOD scid gamma mice

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 6-14

  Guastafierro, Anna ^a   Feng, Huichen ^a   Thant, Mamie ^a   Kirkwood, John M ^a   Chang, Yuan ^a   Moore, Patrick S ^a   Shuda, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell line; Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC); Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV); MS 1; T antigen; Xenograft model

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 20; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN VP1; PROTEIN VP2; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCID MOUSE; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; TUMOR BIOPSY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL, TUMOR; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL LINEAGE; HUMANS; KERATIN-20; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

MUS; POLYOMAVIRUS;

EID: 84869216034     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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